Posted in assessment, learning, school reform, social studies, students, teaching on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The valedictorian is not the smartest kid in school, she’s just the one who’s the best at playing the game of school.
I had the chance to work with a crowd of teachers together with Allison Zmuda earlier this week and I was fascinated by her opening address to the group. She talked about the importance [...]
Posted in brain research, learning, media literacy, students, teaching, technology integration, video games on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A recent issue of Middle School Journal features an article documenting a study that focuses on the use of video games in the classroom.
By now, pretty typical stuff concerning learning styles of digital natives, problem-based learning and how video games are great learning engines. I am impressed with the attempt to link state indicators to [...]
Posted in media literacy, school reform, students, teaching, technology integration on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In an earlier post, we talked about Marc Prensky urging educators to find “new ways to do new things” with technology. In the most recent issue of Educational Leadership, Prensky again talks about the importance of school reform on student learning.
Titled “Turn on the Lights,” the article documents how the lives of students outside [...]
Posted in learning, media literacy, school reform, students, technology integration on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I had the chance to spend part of yesterday afternoon with a group of very talented teachers at Maize South Middle School talking about the best way to teach social studies. For the last year and a half their mandate has been to focus on the use of digital materials as their primary teaching resource.
The [...]
Posted in cool, geography, learning, media literacy, social studies, students, technology integration on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My daughter has fallen in love with Traveler IQ. She and I play the game just about every day.
Created by TravelPod, a site hosting blogs designed for trips and travelers, is a nice additon to the genre of online geography quizzes. Most of those you can find online are a bit cheesy with poor interfaces [...]
Thanks for dropping in! Feel free to poke around. Consider this a companion to my other site over at Social Studies Central. We'll talk about a variety of things including tech integration, Social Studies, whatever I happen to be reading and probably some other stuff.
